September Quotes

• I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newspaper image? In school? I would prefer that they learn about it from my wife and me, in a deliberate and safe way. But it's hard to imagine ever feeling ready to broach the subject without some impetus.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer
  • School
  • Feeling
  • Wife

• I have not been in Fairyland nearly long enough to start crying, September thought, then bit her tongue savagely.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Enough
  • Crying
  • Fairyland

• It is wrong for a secular government to promote prayer. We think the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional. What if the president declared a National Day of Cursing God because He failed us on September 11? Americans would say, "You've overstepped your authority." That's how we feel when he promotes prayer.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Thinking
  • Prayer
  • President

• The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration.

  

  Rita Coolidge
  • Women
  • September
  • Duration

• The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.

  

  Jose Saramago
  • World
  • September

• If any of you have ever lived down south of the Mason-Dixon line, you know that late September still means summer heat.

  

  Scott Porter
  • Summer
  • September
  • Heat

• CNN (14 September 2001)

  

  Jerry Falwell
  • September

• In September 1942 the U.S. government purchased 58,575 acres of wilderness in eastern Tennessee. Soon there was a town, Oak Ridge, and amazing scientific facilities. Thirty-four months after the purchase, an atomic blast lit the New Mexico desert. After 43 months in Iraq, U.S. forces still struggle to cope with improvised explosive devices.

  

  George Will
  • Struggle
  • September
  • Wilderness

• In his or her own way, everyone I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just looked it, I couldn't tell. But they did look happy on this pleasant early afternoon in late September, and because of that I felt a kind of loneliness new to me, as if I were the only one here who was not truly part of the scene.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Happy
  • Scene
  • Loneliness

• Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk.

  

  John Ashcroft
  • World
  • Risk
  • September

• The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Storm
  • Cry
  • Despair

• You are not the chosen one, September. Fairyland did not choose you – you chose yourself.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Chose

• September shut her eyes several times and opened them again, just to be sure, just to be certain she was back in Fairyland, that she wasn’t simply knocked silly by her fall.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Eyes
  • Back
  • Sure

• If one writing contributed more than any other to the framework in which this work Sowell's Knowledge and Decisions developed, it would be an essay entitled 'The Use of Knowledge in Society,' published in the American Economic Review of September 1945, and written by F. A. Hayek . . In this plain and apparently simple essay was a deeply penetrating insight into the way societies function and malfunction, and clues as to why they are so often and so profoundly misunderstood.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Writing
  • Simple
  • Decision

• How smartly September comes in, like a racing gig, all style, no confusion.

  

  Eleanor Clark
  • Style
  • Confusion
  • Racing

• Her father’s shadow looked sadly down at her. “You can never forget what you do in a war, September my love. No one can. You won’t forget your war either.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • War
  • Never
  • Forget

• But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly.

  

  Clare Short
  • America
  • September
  • Prime Minister

• Autumn has a hungry heart - September is the beginning of death.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Heart
  • Death
  • Autumn

• He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains from killing words, sparing Roland and Buzot, as if they were beneath his notice. August 10 was illegal, he says; so too was the taking of the Bastille. What account can we take of that, in revolution? It is the nature of revolutions to break laws. We are not justices of the peace; we are legislators to a new world.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • World
  • Responsibility
  • Justice

• You can never forget what you do in a war, September my love. No one can. You won't forget your war either.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • War
  • Never
  • Forget

• September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to America but to the world at large. The target of the terrorists was not only New York and Washington but the very values of freedom, tolerance and decency which underpin our way of life.

  

  Tony Blair
  • World
  • Challenges
  • Tolerance

• We all just keep moving, September. We keep moving until we stop.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Stop
  • Moving
  • Keep

• I had a terror-since September -I could tell to none-and so I sing, as the Boy does by the Burying Ground-because I am afraid.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Afraid
  • September
  • Terror

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